reasons, some of which we haven t talked about here tonight. going back to why in god s name did the white house keep this guy on for 18 days after sally yates went to the white house and said this guy is a national security risk. it s one of the many weird and unanswered questions in this investigation. it s interesting because white house even after michael flynn was allowed to resign, the day after i think it was, sean spicer said, it had there was no illegal behavior. it was just the fact that he had lied to the vice-president. there was a loss in confidence. there was he had done nothing wrong previous to that, which is interesting. sally yates says there was underlying illegality. she won t go into details. michael flynn requested immunity through his lawyer in exchange for testimony. do you think he should be granted immunity? you know, as these connections and questions about michael flynn mount up, the answer to that question more and more is, boy, what else does he
personally. and some of those people are concerned about what he s doing. in terms of the pace of things, it s got to be brutal. i feel really terrible for most of the people working at the white house. the hours alone, the days must blend one day into the other. i keep thinking about the clinton process of the special prosecutor and bill clinton did hire a personal attorney in the summer of 1993, he hired david kendall. but that white house was basically set up almost like it was walled off. there was a side that was dealing with that investigation and there was a side that was dealing with the government. this government isn t anywhere near staffed to where it should be. the white house is not staffed where it should be. the extended government is not staffed where it should be. they re not able to handle all of this, and the amount of time, because it has become this really toxic event, a lot of them all do feel angry at the media, even if they don t share the president s vi
point. i m not clear if he is making the point that he has made 1,000 times publicly, it s not me under investigation and james comey told me that. he said he was relieved. the pressure is off of him. the pressure is off because comey s gone. that is our understanding of what he said based on the reading of this document and what a defender of the president s argues is that what he was referring do is that spirs essentially said it, that comey was a grand stander, all of what the president has said, he was politicizing this investigation and that made it hard and this investigation is going on regardless. i m not saying that is actually what he meant, but that is what he said. let s be clear, the president can say what he would like to say, however there is legal consequences on what he says. if you have fired the fbi director who s leading an investigation into whether or
house. you can look up impeachment. but don t tell anybody you re doing it. but i don t think we re there and i don t think it s healthy. impeachment is premature at this stage. the reason you have a special counsel, the reason you have talk of obstruction of justice because we want to have a full investigation. it s not about is there there there, a dr. seuss soliloquy, it s about whether or not their investigation is can complete yet, who did what, why did they do it and why is it important? there s the fact-finding of congress and the approximately investigation that will tell us, is there a problem, should there be an impeachment proceeding going on? we re not there because we haven t had the full opportunity for investigation. which is really the key to this entire thing. all of which is true certainly. but we do have a special counsel appointed. that s a big deal. barack obama went eight years without anything like this happening. this is 120 days. so, yes, impeachment is
know? no. by the way, it s possible i don t have any particular insight into the fbi investigation. but it s possible that he is a target of that investigation. if that is possible or certainly if that is true, there s no way congress should grant him immunity. as you know, anderson, immunity is granted when a proffer is made and a prosecutor or congress is comfortable there s a big fish out there to be gotten. in the criminal world you give immunity to a low level criminal in hope of using that to get a higher level criminal. it raises serious questions here. at this point, unless there s a good reason to grant him immunity, it s unlikely it would happen. i appreciate your time. one has to wonder what the mood is like on air force 1. president trump scheduled to land in saudi arabia. a short time after he left, word came out from the new york times about what the president